The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 94 81 51
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -30
Contract jobs citing Perl 118 166 321
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.875% 2.134% 3.262%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.495% 5.884% 7.780%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 111 234
Average daily rate £475 £450 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.55% -5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £338 £370
10% offered a daily rate of more than £588 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £408 £308
% change year-on-year
-14.11% +32.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -30.23%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £37.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-39.18% +8.82%
All Programming Languages
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2625 2821 4126
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 41.70% 36.26% 41.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2029 2110 3122
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 35
Average hourly rate £40.75 £25.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+63.00% -10.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.56 £15.00 £18.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £50.00 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Perl
London

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Perl across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

City of London Perl Jobs Demand Trend

Perl
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Perl across the City of London region.

City of London Perl Daily Rate Trend

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Perl across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Perl Daily Rate Histogram

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Perl across the City of London region.

City of London Perl Hourly Rate Trend

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Perl also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Perl.

1 101 (47.64%) UNIX
2 96 (45.28%) Linux
3 89 (41.98%) SQL
4 77 (36.32%) Banking
5 73 (34.43%) Java
5 73 (34.43%) Python
6 70 (33.02%) Finance
7 46 (21.70%) Investment Banking
8 43 (20.28%) Oracle
9 42 (19.81%) Windows
10 39 (18.40%) SQL Server
10 39 (18.40%) C#
11 36 (16.98%) Solaris
11 36 (16.98%) Red Hat
12 30 (14.15%) Bash shell
13 28 (13.21%) OO
13 28 (13.21%) JavaScript
14 27 (12.74%) .NET
15 26 (12.26%) Shell Script
16 25 (11.79%) C++
16 25 (11.79%) Derivative
17 24 (11.32%) Front Office
18 23 (10.85%) Sybase
18 23 (10.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 22 (10.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20 20 (9.434%) Ruby
20 20 (9.434%) SAN
21 19 (8.962%) Agile Software Development
21 19 (8.962%) Continuous Integration
22 18 (8.491%) QA

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Perl also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Perl. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 27 (12.74%) .NET
2 16 (7.547%) Web Services
2 16 (7.547%) XML
3 14 (6.604%) CSS
4 13 (6.132%) HTML
5 9 (4.245%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (3.302%) Middleware
6 7 (3.302%) XSLT
6 7 (3.302%) jQuery
7 6 (2.830%) ASP.NET
7 6 (2.830%) Spring
8 5 (2.358%) WebSphere
8 5 (2.358%) JSON
8 5 (2.358%) ASP
8 5 (2.358%) JSP
8 5 (2.358%) SOAP
8 5 (2.358%) LINQ
8 5 (2.358%) HTML5
8 5 (2.358%) REST
9 4 (1.887%) Murex MxML
Application Platforms
1 12 (5.660%) Apache
2 7 (3.302%) Tomcat
2 7 (3.302%) IIS
3 5 (2.358%) TeamSite
4 4 (1.887%) MQSeries
4 4 (1.887%) Windows Azure
4 4 (1.887%) Amazon AWS
5 2 (0.943%) Confluence
5 2 (0.943%) Apache Pig
5 2 (0.943%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (0.943%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.472%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.472%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.472%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.472%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (0.472%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.472%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.472%) ESB
6 1 (0.472%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.472%) Drupal
Applications
1 5 (2.358%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.943%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.943%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.887%) Murex MxG2000
2 3 (1.415%) Global One
2 3 (1.415%) RMDS
3 2 (0.943%) Khalix
3 2 (0.943%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (0.943%) Summit
3 2 (0.943%) HFM
3 2 (0.943%) Front Arena
3 2 (0.943%) LongView
4 1 (0.472%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.472%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.472%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.434%) SAN
2 18 (8.491%) TCP/IP
3 14 (6.604%) LDAP
4 13 (6.132%) DNS
5 10 (4.717%) NAS
6 9 (4.245%) Internet
6 9 (4.245%) HTTP
7 5 (2.358%) SSL
8 4 (1.887%) Intranet
8 4 (1.887%) SMTP
9 3 (1.415%) VPN
9 3 (1.415%) Firewall
9 3 (1.415%) SSH
9 3 (1.415%) Extranet
10 2 (0.943%) NetScreen
10 2 (0.943%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.943%) tcpdump
10 2 (0.943%) Junos
10 2 (0.943%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.943%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (18.40%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.132%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (5.660%) RDBMS
4 11 (5.189%) SQL Server 2005
5 10 (4.717%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.245%) Big Data
7 7 (3.302%) MySQL
7 7 (3.302%) Data Mining
8 6 (2.830%) DB2
8 6 (2.830%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.358%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (2.358%) HBase
9 5 (2.358%) Oracle 8/8i
9 5 (2.358%) SQL Server 2000
10 4 (1.887%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.887%) OLAP
11 3 (1.415%) Oracle 9i
11 3 (1.415%) OLTP
11 3 (1.415%) UniData
11 3 (1.415%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 9 (4.245%) Subversion
2 7 (3.302%) Selenium
2 7 (3.302%) Ant
2 7 (3.302%) JUnit
2 7 (3.302%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.358%) Hudson
3 5 (2.358%) TeamCity
3 5 (2.358%) OpenDeploy
3 5 (2.358%) Maven
3 5 (2.358%) ClearCase
4 4 (1.887%) JIRA
4 4 (1.887%) QuickTest Pro
4 4 (1.887%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.415%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.415%) CruiseControl
5 3 (1.415%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.943%) Git (software)
6 2 (0.943%) WebDriver
6 2 (0.943%) TestNG
6 2 (0.943%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 77 (36.32%) Banking
2 70 (33.02%) Finance
3 46 (21.70%) Investment Banking
4 24 (11.32%) Front Office
5 12 (5.660%) Retail
6 8 (3.774%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.358%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.358%) Back Office
8 4 (1.887%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.415%) Marketing
9 3 (1.415%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.415%) Advertising
10 2 (0.943%) Electronics
11 1 (0.472%) Games
11 1 (0.472%) German Language
Job Titles
1 87 (41.04%) Developer
2 35 (16.51%) Analyst
3 17 (8.019%) Administrator
4 16 (7.547%) Systems Administrator
5 15 (7.075%) Support Analyst
6 14 (6.604%) Java Developer
7 13 (6.132%) Linux Engineer
8 12 (5.660%) Perl Developer
9 11 (5.189%) UNIX Engineer
10 10 (4.717%) Applications Support
11 9 (4.245%) Senior Developer
11 9 (4.245%) Team Leader
11 9 (4.245%) UNIX Administrator
12 8 (3.774%) UNIX Systems Administrator
12 8 (3.774%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 8 (3.774%) SQL Developer
12 8 (3.774%) Linux Administrator
13 7 (3.302%) C++ Developer
13 7 (3.302%) Analyst Developer
13 7 (3.302%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.79%) Derivative
2 23 (10.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (8.019%) Equities
4 14 (6.604%) Computer Science
4 14 (6.604%) Open Source
5 12 (5.660%) Fixed Income
6 9 (4.245%) Market Risk
7 8 (3.774%) Mathematics
7 8 (3.774%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (2.830%) Clustering
9 5 (2.358%) SWIFT
9 5 (2.358%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.887%) Visualisation
10 4 (1.887%) Economics
11 3 (1.415%) PKI
11 3 (1.415%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.415%) CLARiiON
12 2 (0.943%) Grid Computing
12 2 (0.943%) DTV
12 2 (0.943%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 101 (47.64%) UNIX
2 96 (45.28%) Linux
3 42 (19.81%) Windows
4 36 (16.98%) Solaris
5 22 (10.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (4.717%) SUSE
7 7 (3.302%) AIX
8 5 (2.358%) HPUX
8 5 (2.358%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.415%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.943%) CentOS
10 2 (0.943%) Android
10 2 (0.943%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.943%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.472%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.472%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.472%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.472%) VMS
11 1 (0.472%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (13.21%) OO
2 19 (8.962%) Agile Software Development
2 19 (8.962%) Continuous Integration
3 17 (8.019%) Migration
4 15 (7.075%) Data Analysis
5 14 (6.604%) Workflow
6 13 (6.132%) E-Commerce
6 13 (6.132%) ETL
7 12 (5.660%) TDD
8 11 (5.189%) Scrum
8 11 (5.189%) Configuration Management
9 10 (4.717%) Project Management
9 10 (4.717%) Web Development
10 9 (4.245%) Data Migration
11 8 (3.774%) Unit Testing
11 8 (3.774%) Regression Testing
12 7 (3.302%) Automated Testing
12 7 (3.302%) Change Management
12 7 (3.302%) Business Analysis
12 7 (3.302%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 89 (41.98%) SQL
2 73 (34.43%) Java
2 73 (34.43%) Python
3 39 (18.40%) C#
4 30 (14.15%) Bash shell
5 28 (13.21%) JavaScript
6 26 (12.26%) Shell Script
7 25 (11.79%) C++
8 20 (9.434%) Ruby
9 18 (8.491%) C
10 12 (5.660%) PHP
10 12 (5.660%) PL/SQL
11 10 (4.717%) VBA
12 9 (4.245%) Korn
13 8 (3.774%) Scala
14 7 (3.302%) VB
14 7 (3.302%) VB.NET
15 6 (2.830%) VBScript
16 4 (1.887%) C-shell
17 3 (1.415%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 16 (7.547%) Degree
2 5 (2.358%) RHCE
2 5 (2.358%) ISEB
3 3 (1.415%) CISSP
3 3 (1.415%) MCTS
3 3 (1.415%) MCITP
3 3 (1.415%) ISTQB
3 3 (1.415%) Microsoft Certified Master
4 1 (0.472%) VCP5
4 1 (0.472%) VCP4
4 1 (0.472%) Check Point Certification
4 1 (0.472%) CCSA
4 1 (0.472%) SCSA
4 1 (0.472%) CCSE
4 1 (0.472%) RHCT
4 1 (0.472%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (0.472%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.472%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.472%) MCDBA
4 1 (0.472%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.491%) QA
2 3 (1.415%) Dublin Core
3 1 (0.472%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (7.547%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (5.660%) NFS
3 10 (4.717%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 4 (1.887%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (1.415%) vSphere
5 3 (1.415%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.415%) VMware ESX
6 1 (0.472%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.472%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.472%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.472%) qmail
6 1 (0.472%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.472%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.472%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.472%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 12 (5.660%) Puppet
2 5 (2.358%) BladeLogic
2 5 (2.358%) BMC Performance Manager
3 4 (1.887%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (1.887%) BMC PATROL
3 4 (1.887%) Nagios
4 3 (1.415%) Red Hat Satellite
4 3 (1.415%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 2 (0.943%) Splunk
5 2 (0.943%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 1 (0.472%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.472%) Ionix
6 1 (0.472%) SCOM
6 1 (0.472%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.472%) CFEngine
6 1 (0.472%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 43 (20.28%) Oracle
2 36 (16.98%) Red Hat
3 23 (10.85%) Sybase
4 18 (8.491%) VMware
5 17 (8.019%) HP
6 13 (6.132%) Microsoft
7 9 (4.245%) Sun
8 7 (3.302%) JBoss
8 7 (3.302%) IBM
8 7 (3.302%) Veritas
9 6 (2.830%) TIBCO
9 6 (2.830%) Murex
9 6 (2.830%) EMC
9 6 (2.830%) Cisco
10 5 (2.358%) BMC
10 5 (2.358%) NetApp
11 4 (1.887%) Informatica
11 4 (1.887%) Cognos
12 3 (1.415%) Citrix
12 3 (1.415%) F5
City, London
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Rate: £450 - £550 per annum
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Rate: £400 - £450 per day
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Rate: 475
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
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Rate: £400 - £500 per day
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Orgtel
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Orgtel
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Rate: £400.00 - £450.00 per day
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